Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-01-18
EGRTi-NfNTH CONSRENS.
Second Session.
sen ATE.
WASHINGTON,

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. II.
The resolutions of the Maine legislature in
( opposition to tho free ship bill were present
, ed in the Senate today.
Mr.. Hoar, from the select committee on
the centennial Of the constitution. reported a
4 res olutiou that it is eXpedient that the Ct
tennial anniversary of the Inauguration of
the constitution be cele brated in April. 1889,
by an address to be delivered before the
President of the United States, and to the
Houses of Congress by the chief justice of
. the United States, to which the representa-
tlves of foreign governments shall Sc invited
and that the occasion be further celebrated
By suitable civic and military observance.
the details thereof to be settled hereafter;
adopted
, Mr.. Edmunds called attention to the bill
introduced by him and referred TO the post
office committee, providing f,r govern
ment postal telegraph. He wished the com
mittee 10 report il either favoraby or unta-
vorabIy, 50 that h. might try to get the jud!.
menI OF the Senate on it.
On motion of Mr.. Sawyer the Senate pro.
! ceeded to consider and pass pensions bills on
: the calendar. Forty pension bills (princ-
pal!y House billsl were passed and the pen
sion appropriation bill, approprlating S75,-
O0O,OOO, was taken up and passed with only a
| few immaterial am endments.
The army appropriation bill was also taken
up and passed, with f,w unimportant
amendments.
The Senate bill to establish agricultural
| experiment stations in connection with agri
cultural colleges was taken up as unfinished
business.
Messrs ingalls, and Vest opposed and Mr.
Butler supported the measure.
Without action on the bill or any of its
pending amendments the Senate at 5. 10 ad.
journed.
Under the cali of States bill wa, intro
duced bv Mr.. Dingley of Maine and referred
to amend the shipping act of 1886, so as to
more clearly define the conditions under
which the President may suspend the collec-
: tlon OF the tonnage tax and go as to provide
+ for payments of certain expenses of steam
, boat Inspectors
By Mr.. Lowering of Massachusetts, grant
ing pension of S25 month to Walter
Whitman. Mr.. Lowering states that Whit
man made no application for pension but
that the bill was introduced at the request of
number of the poets friends in Massa chu
sets.
BY Mr.. Herman of Oregon, proposing a
constitutional amendment for the election of
United States senators by the people of the
States.
, BY Mr.. Ballantine of Tennessee. for the
construction of six cruising vessels of war of
20 knots speed
The call of States having been concluded
the House retused-yeas ll3 pays 1870
f consider the interstate commerce bill con.
ference report and also voted down a mo.
. ton TO suspend the rules and pass n bill to
limit the jurisdiction of the United States
court in patent cases and to protect persons
who without notice are bonafde manufsc-
turers, purchasers, venders and users of pa.
tented articles.
Mr.. Mats0n of Indiana. on behalf of the
committee on invalid pensions moved to sus.
pend tha rules and pass the bill for the relief
of dependent parents of honorably discharged
saldiers and sailors now disabled and depend
ent upon their own labor for support
Mr.. Warner of Ohio criticised the bill as
pauper bill rather ii an a pension bill
The bill was passed-yeas l79, nay. 76.
(It provides that in considering pension
claims of dependent parents. the fact and
cause of DEATH and The fact that the soldier
left no widow or minor children having been
shown as equred by law, it shall be neces
: sary to show that such parents are without
other means of support than their own man
l.
ly bound for their support, prov ided no peu-
sion allowed under this act shall commence
prior to its passage All persons who served
three months or more in the military and
naval service of the United States or in any
war in which the United States has been en-
gagged, and who have been honoraby dis
charged therefrom and who are now or who
may hereafter be suffering from mental or
physical disability not the result of their ow
vicious habits or gross carelessness which
= lncapscitstes them for the performance of
labor in such a degree to render them
unable even to support themselves and who
are dependent upon their daily labor for sup
port, shall, upon making due proof of the
3 fact according to such rules and regulations
IS the secretary of the interior may provide
t in pursuance of this act. be placed on the
list of invalid pensioners of the United States
and be entitled to receive for such total in
ability to procure their substance bv daily
labor, Sl2 per month"; and such pension
r shal commence from the date of the filing Of
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